GCP Classroom notes 14/Sep/2024

Object Storage in Google Cloud

• This is an object store for binary and object data, blobs and unstructured data.
• object storage use cases include
  • applications that needs to highly available and durable service images and documents (Website)
  • large amounts of data (genomics and data analytics)
  • backups and archives
• In Google cloud storage we create buckets to organize the objects, Each buckets name should be unique and it will be accessed over http(s)
• Storage classes:
  • Standard buckets: for high performances, frequent access and highest availability
    • Regional or dual-regional locations
    • Multi-region, for serving content globally
  • Nearline: for data accessed less than once a month
  • Coldline: for data access roughly less than a quarter
  • Archive: for data that you put away for years
• Cloud Storage service doesnot provide any filesystem.

Lets create GCS bucket

• For screenshot refer video
• Refer Here for bucket naming contstraints
• Options
  
  
  
  
  
• Now we can create folders or upload objects(files) in the bucket

GCS Bucket activities from cli

• Create a bucket from cli

gcloud storage buckets create gs://lt-bucket-learning --no-public-access-prevention

• Lets upload an file to the bucket

gsutil cp gcp1.png  gs://lt-bucket-learning/

• Lets try uploading the whole folder into gcp bucket

 gsutil cp -r .\Images\  gs://lt-bucket-learning/Images

Bucket Versions

• GCS supports versioning on your bucket. This feature keeps multiple versions of an object

Lifecycle Management

• GCS supports lifecycle policies to automatically transition objects to differnt storage classes, delete them, perform actions based on conditions like age, creation data, storage classes

Logging and Monitoring

• GCS integrates with Cloud monitoring and logging to provide detailed logs of access, errors and performance metrics

Other Features

• Cloud CDN integration
• Resumable uploads
• Parallel Composite Uplods
• JSON and XML APIs
• Fine grained Access controls

Configuring Bucket Permissions

• Setup bucket level IAM Permissions to control access GCS Bucket
• Permission at IAM LEVEL for the GCP Project
• Permissions at bucket level
• Permission at object level
• The permissions can be given to service accounts, where the key has to be downloaded and can be used with cli or programmatic access
• Refer class room video for
  • Lifecycle Transitions
  • Cross region replications
  • Website hosting Refer Here